It seems like Samsung will be releasing a lot of new phones soon at the Mobile World Congress 2009, and here's another OLED one. Again, currently this is only a rumor...
Samsung M7600
The M7600 has a touchscreen 2.8" AMOLED, Bang & Olufsen's ICEpower audio system and a DJ-scratch software via the touchscreen. It also has a GPS, DivX support and will be shipping by May.
UDC are working on flexible displays - they have shown a nice AMOLED 4" display at CES (made together with LG Display and L-3). Now they say they are considering adding touch controls to their displays - although it is difficult to do on a flexible display. This will be interesting.
Here's a short video showing LG's 15" OLED TV prototype unveiled at CES 2009:
Kodak is experiencing a hard time with severe losses - and they also forecast more losses down the road. They announced they will cut costs in growth areas including OLEDs.
They also said they will seek new alliances or other business models to try and reduce risk.
There seems to be several new Samsung phones coming up, according to a recent 'leak'. One of them is the S5050 slider:
Samsung S5050
It has a 2.2" AMOLED display, 3.2mp camera with LED flash, FM radio/RDS and 50MB internal memory + microSD slot.
Sporting a 3.2 megapixel
camera and touch-sensitive keys below the display it is the first
mid-range handset to feature a 2.2" OLED display. It's not a 3G phone (rather a GSM/GPRS/EDGE - 2.75G). If true than this is rather interesting as it's a mid-range phone with a nice OLED display.
A few months ago OSD released the 4.3" AMOLED by CMEL. now we got a short video clip showing this display:
The resolution is 480x272 and the contrast ratio is 10,000:1. The panel is now available, contact us for details.
Uni-Pixel and Samsung announced that they will collaborate on UniPixel's TMOS display etchnology. TMOS (Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter) will potentially bring displays that are lower in cost, have better performance and lower power consumption that LCDs or even OLEDs.
TMOS is based on temporal additive color. Short bursts of red, green and blue light are emitted through the same dot so quickly that the eye also sees them as a single color. But in this case, different durations of red, green and blue create different shades and hues.
Well, the OLED Laptop poll was open for a week, and we got over 100 results. 57% of the people said they are willing to pay 100-250$ extra for an OLED laptop. Obviously our poll is problematic because OLED-Info visitors are likely to want an OLED display... but it still seems to be that adding something like 10%-20% cost to a laptop is something people are willing to pay in exchange for a better display, thinner laptop and better battery life.
The real question is of course whether this is practical... with Sony's 11" OLED TV costing 2500$, it doesn't seem probable that a 14" OLED will add only 250$ cost to a laptop. However the technology is always improving, and it's possible that LG or Samsung will be able to pull off a much cheaper OLED display than Sony's.
